“There were soldiers all from Fulani extraction around the area at Nnoma junction, and these boys were going behind them.”
Mr Okorocha was the last aspirant to be screened by the APC 2023 presidential primary on Tuesday night.
The FCTA said the demolished shanties were suspected criminal hideouts, where hoodlums freely smoke marijuana and other illicit drugs.
The Court of Appeal had earlier held that the trial by Justice Okon Abang was tainted with bias, and ordered a retrial.
She said the attack followed a hit and run accident involving a motorcycle and a car.
Mr Bello said the agency had conducted a series of engagements with dispatch companies and riders before arriving at the August deadline.
The suspect was nabbed while trying to board an Air France plane to Paris, France, and Milan, Italy, on Sunday, May 15, 2022, said the NDLEA.
Seven hundred and seventy-four national delegates are expected to vote in the convention to elect a candidate from 13 aspirants.
The officers were sighted at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium venue of the event in their fatigues on Saturday evening.
The police, Civil Defence and State Security Service are stationed at different locations around the stadium.
